The Oakstone Advantage

The Oakstone team partners with many of the smartest minds in medicine to deliver some of the most reliable, most trusted, most comprehensive educational content available. Our partners include USCF, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, the Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins and many more. Our continuing education programs include:

Board Reviews

Stay current and earn credits while maximizing your performance on certification or recertification exams.

Clinical Updates

Ensure the highest quality of patient care with the latest guidelines and treatment options in your specialty.

Journal Reviews

Become a member of the elite journal club and stay ahead of changes with top-quality, unbiased journal summaries.

Audio Companions

Expand your breadth of knowledge with popular self-assessment programs with focused discussions and commentary.

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As a part of A.D.A.M., Oakstone products will be marketed within the vast domestic and international network of hospitals, educational institutions and physician medical associations. In addition, the Oakstone team will have access to the extensive spectrum of A.D.A.M. content services providing the ability to leverage its rich media production services to elevate the quality of our products and increase the offerings available to our physician, dental and allied health care-based network of customers.

Major Brands

CMEinfo Doctors and dentists rely on CMEinfo to provide a range of unbiased and evidence-based content in the form of recorded medical conferences and accompanying materials, which can be accessed online or in CD or DVD formats. Every year, CMEinfo records, edits and packages these programs across 40+ medical specialties and subspecialties, giving doctors and dentists the freedom to “attend” important conferences without travel and time away from their practice.

Practical Reviews Every month, our experienced physician-editors scour hundreds of medical journals in search of the most relevant articles, delivering expert summaries and audio commentary to computers, phones and mobile devices. Practical Reviews keeps doctors and dentists current, saving them precious time while putting a world of valuable information at their fingertips.

Dental Decks Capitalizing on the simplicity and effectiveness of flash cards, Dental Decks provides dental and dental hygiene students with a fast, convenient, proven way to prep for Dental and Dental Hygiene Board exams. Cards are available online or in physical form, organized around relevant topics and designed to be an affordable, highly useful tool.

Personal Best Personal Best promotes health and safety in the workplace through employee wellness programs and publications that educate, encourage and enrich. We deliver a range of generic and custom-branded wellness communication tools in the form of newsletters, brochures, posters, kits, journals and other materials.

Major Partnerships

Oakstone partners with many of the smartest minds in medicine to deliver some of the most reliable, most trusted, most comprehensive educational content available. Our partners include Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, the Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins and many more. Click here to view the complete list of universities, hospitals and association partners.

The Oakstone Pledge

While we provide a vast array of continuing medical education materials, it is the quality of what we provide that makes us different. Our content is unbiased and evidence-based. We strive to work with highly experienced clinicians and experts in their fields, and partner with some of the best medical institutions in the world. Through our products, CMEinfo and Practical Reviews, we provide the best in recorded course reviews, clinical updates, journal summaries and conferences. You can be confident that the CME materials developed by Oakstone are of the absolute highest quality. Our reputation depends on it.

Mission Statement

Oakstone Medical Publishing, LLC (Oakstone) develops and publishes medical and dental education materials that are timely, relevant, and meaningful to clinical practice in multiple specialties for health care and dental providers. Each activity provides practical, concise updated information allowing the provider to incorporate new practice methodologies (or eliminate existing practice methodologies) and to improve professional understanding of various health-related issues addressed in their practice while enhancing their competence and performance for purposes of improved patient care and improved quality of health care.

The continuing education (CE) programs by Oakstone are designed to develop and disseminate medical and dental educational materials allowing health care and dental providers to select their learning format and then learn at a convenient time, pace, and place.

The Oakstone Advantage

The Oakstone team partners with many of the smartest minds in medicine to deliver some of the most reliable, most trusted, most comprehensive educational content available. Our partners include USCF, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, the Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins and many more. Our continuing education programs include:

Board Reviews

Stay current and earn credits while maximizing your performance on certification or recertification exams.

Clinical Updates

Ensure the highest quality of patient care with the latest guidelines and treatment options in your specialty.

Journal Reviews

Become a member of the elite journal club and stay ahead of changes with top-quality, unbiased journal summaries.

Audio Companions

Expand your breadth of knowledge with popular self-assessment programs with focused discussions and commentary.

Ebix is a leading international supplier of On-Demand software and E-commerce to the insurance, financial and health care industries. A.D.A.M. is a business unit of Ebix focused on providing innovative multimedia health content trusted by best-in-class websites, consumer health portals, health care, biomedical device, pharmaceutical, and academic organizations.

As a part of A.D.A.M., Oakstone products will be marketed within the vast domestic and international network of hospitals, educational institutions and physician medical associations. In addition, the Oakstone team will have access to the extensive spectrum of A.D.A.M. content services providing the ability to leverage its rich media production services to elevate the quality of our products and increase the offerings available to our physician, dental and allied health care-based network of customers.

Major Brands

CMEinfo Doctors and dentists rely on CMEinfo to provide a range of unbiased and evidence-based content in the form of recorded medical conferences and accompanying materials, which can be accessed online or in CD or DVD formats. Every year, CMEinfo records, edits and packages these programs across 40+ medical specialties and subspecialties, giving doctors and dentists the freedom to “attend” important conferences without travel and time away from their practice.

Practical Reviews Every month, our experienced physician-editors scour hundreds of medical journals in search of the most relevant articles, delivering expert summaries and audio commentary to computers, phones and mobile devices. Practical Reviews keeps doctors and dentists current, saving them precious time while putting a world of valuable information at their fingertips.

Dental Decks Capitalizing on the simplicity and effectiveness of flash cards, Dental Decks provides dental and dental hygiene students with a fast, convenient, proven way to prep for Dental and Dental Hygiene Board exams. Cards are available online or in physical form, organized around relevant topics and designed to be an affordable, highly useful tool.

Personal Best Personal Best promotes health and safety in the workplace through employee wellness programs and publications that educate, encourage and enrich. We deliver a range of generic and custom-branded wellness communication tools in the form of newsletters, brochures, posters, kits, journals and other materials.

Major Partnerships

Oakstone partners with many of the smartest minds in medicine to deliver some of the most reliable, most trusted, most comprehensive educational content available. Our partners include Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, the Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins and many more. Click here to view the complete list of universities, hospitals and association partners.

The Oakstone Pledge

While we provide a vast array of continuing medical education materials, it is the quality of what we provide that makes us different. Our content is unbiased and evidence-based. We strive to work with highly experienced clinicians and experts in their fields, and partner with some of the best medical institutions in the world. Through our products, CMEinfo and Practical Reviews, we provide the best in recorded course reviews, clinical updates, journal summaries and conferences. You can be confident that the CME materials developed by Oakstone are of the absolute highest quality. Our reputation depends on it.

Mission Statement

Oakstone Medical Publishing, LLC (Oakstone) develops and publishes medical and dental education materials that are timely, relevant, and meaningful to clinical practice in multiple specialties for health care and dental providers. Each activity provides practical, concise updated information allowing the provider to incorporate new practice methodologies (or eliminate existing practice methodologies) and to improve professional understanding of various health-related issues addressed in their practice while enhancing their competence and performance for purposes of improved patient care and improved quality of health care.

The continuing education (CE) programs by Oakstone are designed to develop and disseminate medical and dental educational materials allowing health care and dental providers to select their learning format and then learn at a convenient time, pace, and place.

Practical Reviews in Anesthesiology

Stay current on the latest advances in Anesthesiology with our unbiased expert reviews from today's leading medical journals.

If your primary viewing mode will be on a computer or tablet, we recommend the Online Video package.
In addition to online access, you will receive a USB with MP4 files. Use the USB to watch offline or import into iTunes and other media players and then synch to your mobile device, laptop or desktop. Plus you save $130 including standard shipping charges vs the DVD package.

Get Connected Online

Practical Reviews is just that—practical, expert reviews of the most relevant articles from leading medical journals in Anesthesiology.

Connect to Research Summaries from Leading Medical Journals

Our expert medical faculty conduct a comprehensive review of hundreds of articles from current leading medical journals so you don’t have to. Our knowledge leaders summarize the most relevant medical research for you to review at your convenience and add commentary with perspective for applying these findings in your own practice.

Connect to Practical Reviews in Anesthesiology and get:

16 articles summarized in each issue, each with an expert audio review

Did You Know?

Articles in each issue of Practical Reviews are selected, vetted and summarized by expert panelists who are some of the leading practitioners and instructors in their fields.

The free Practical Reviews app provides easy search capabilities across 125,000+ articles to aid you in your research needs.

Coordinating Editor

Kumar G. Belani, MD, MBBS, MS, FACA, FAAP

Professor of Anesthesiology, Medicine & Pediatrics

Professor of Environmental Health Sciences

Schools of Medicine & Public Health

University of Minnesota

Minneapolis, MN

Administrative Editor

Paul J. Christo, MD, MBA

Associate Professor

The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Director, Multidisciplinary Pain Fellowship (2003-2011)

Director, Blaustein Pain Treatment Center (2003-2008)

Division of Pain Medicine

Department of Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine

Baltimore, MD

Reviewers

David S. Beebe, MD

Professor of Anesthesiology

University of Minnesota School of Medicine

Minneapolis, MN

Krasimir George Bojanov, MD

Assistant Professor in Anesthesiology

University of Minnesota Medical School

Staff Anesthesiologist

Twin Cities Anesthesia Associates

Minneapolis, MN

Ruchir Gupta, MD

Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology

Stony Brook School of Medicine

Stony Brook NY

Jacob Hutchins, MD

University of Minnesota

Minneapolis, MN

Douglas E. Koehntop, MD

Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology

University of Minnesota School of Medicine

Minneapolis, MN

Priya Ramachandran Menon, MD, MBBS

Staff Anesthesiologist

Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care

Herzzentrum Leipzig, Strumpellstrasse

Leipzig, Germany

Kanchi Muralidhar, MD

Professor & Head of the Department

Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine

Narayana Hrudayalaya Hospitals

Karnataka, India

Niraja Rajan, MD

Assistant Professor

Medical Director

Penn State Hershey Medical Center

Hershey Outpatient Surgery Center

Hershey, PA

Andrew D. Sedivy, MD

Staff Anesthesiologist

Park Nicollet

St. Louis Park

Minneapolis, MN

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica

American Journal of Anesthesiology

American Journal of Cardiology

Anaesthesia

Anesthesia & Analgesia

Anesthesiology

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Annals of Internal Medicine

Annals of Neurology

Annals of Surgery

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Archives of Internal Medicine

Archives of Surgery

British Journal of Anaesthesia

Canadian Journal of Anesthesia

CHEST

Circulation

Circulation Research

Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics

Critical Care Medicine

Diabetes Care

Gastroenterology

Hypertension

Intensive Care Medicine

Journal of the American Medical Association

Journal of Anaesthesia and Clinical Pharmacology

Journal of Applied Physiology

Journal of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia

Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology

Journal of Clinical Anesthesia

Journal of Clinical Monitoring

Journal of Hand Surgery

Journal of Neurosurgery

Journal of Pediatrics

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Journal of Thoracic Surgery

Journal of Trauma

The Lancet

Liver Transplantation and Surgery

The New England Journal of Medicine

Paediatric Anaesthesia

Pain

Pain Physician

Pediatrics

Regional Anesthesia

Stroke

Transfusion

Statement of Need

CME is integrated into the process for improving professional practice with educational strategies implemented to remove, overcome or address barriers to physician change. Physicians are unable to consistently integrate new information into their practices because of the ways new medical knowledge is structured and disseminated, and the time it takes to completely scan for new information. Practical Reviews publications select and translate peer-reviewed literature for practical use, therefore diminishing the barrier of time.

Intended Audience

Anesthesiologists, surgeons and others interested in anesthesiology.

Special Prerequisites for Participants

There are no prerequisites for participants.

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this activity, participants will demonstrate the ability to:

Discuss the latest basic science findings and the impact of these on clinical problems

The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine takes responsibility for the content, quality, and scientific integrity of this CME activity.

Accreditation Statement

The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Credit Designation Per Issue for Practical Reviews

The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine designates this enduring material for a maximum of 4 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

This activity is also eligible for 4 credit hours in Category 2-B of the Continuing Medical Education Program of the American Osteopathic Association, provided it is completed in its entirety.

Estimated time to complete each issue: 4 hours

Policy on Faculty and Provider Disclosure

It is the policy of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine that the speaker and provider globally disclose conflicts of interest. The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine OCME has established policies in place that will identify and resolve all conflicts of interest prior to this educational activity. Detailed disclosure will be made in the instructional materials.

To obtain credit, the quiz must be completed online within 24 months of publication date. The participant must score a minimum of 70%.

Disclaimer Statement

The opinions and recommendations expressed by faculty and other experts whose input is included in this program are their own. This enduring material is produced for educational purposes only. Use of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine name implies review of educational format design and approach. Please review the complete prescribing information of specific drugs or combination of drugs, including indications, contraindications, warnings and adverse effects before administering pharmacologic therapy to patients.

For release and expiration dates, please see the front matter material at the beginning of each issue.

CONFIDENTIALITY DISCLAIMER FOR CME ACTIVITY PARTICIPANTS

I certify that I am attending a Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine CME activity for accredited training and/or educational purposes. I understand that while I am attending in this capacity, I may be exposed to "protected health information," as that term is defined and used in Hopkins policies and in the federal HIPAA privacy regulations (the "Privacy Regulations"). Protected health information is information about a person's health or treatment that identifies the person.

I pledge and agree to use and disclose any of this protected health information only for the training and/or educational purposes of my visit and to keep the information confidential. I agree not to post or discuss this protected health information, including pictures and/or videos, on any social media site (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, etc.), in any electronic messaging program or through any portable electronic device.

I understand that I may direct to the Johns Hopkins Privacy Officer any questions I have about my obligations under this Confidentiality Pledge or under any of the Hopkins policies and procedures and applicable laws and regulations related to confidentiality. The contact information is: Johns Hopkins Privacy Officer, telephone: 410-735-6509, e-mail: HIPAA@jhmi.edu.

"The Office of Continuing Medical Education at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, as provider of this activity, has relayed information with the CME attendees/participants and certifies that the visitor is attending for training, education and/or observation purposes only."

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